Tuesday, December 22, 2015

What is unified-access ?

Unified file and object access allows use cases where you
can access data using object as well as file interfaces. For example: If a user ingests a file
from the SMB interface then users with valid access rights can access that file from the object interface. On the other hand, if a user ingests a object from object interface then users with valid access rights can access that file from file interface.

Step 2: For this demo, I am using unified_mode for authentication.
In unified_mode users from object and file are expected to be common and coming
from the same directory service (Note that I have LDAP user authentication configure for both object and file).
Check this for more information.

We need to specify following parameters in order to configure upgrade.

ap -- Specify the password for the Admin User
dp -- Specify the password for object database
i -- Specify the GPFS fileset inode allocation to be used
o -- Specify the GPFS fileset to be created/used as the

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

What this post is about ?

As title indicates this post is about configuring Swift Explorer with Spectrum Scale object store.

What we will need ?

1) A cluster with spectrum scale installed
2) Object service given by spectrum scale should be enable and configured with keystone
3) A client on which you can install Swift Explorer.
4) Your cluster should be pingable by client.